Old Time Playgrounds......When they were fun

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It is sad to pass by a modern playground. Slides that are 6 foot high, swings that are eight feet high. Dull for any child over five years old.
Let’s look at what playground equipment used to be.

My all time favorite ...Merry go round

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You could get this sucker going a million miles an hour.
If you didn’t hold on, you went flying off
 
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Monkey Bars
Where you could climb to great heights, hang upside down, risk death every recess

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Speaking of Monkey Bars
Let’s go Old School

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More death defying fun

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Check out what real slides and real swings looked like

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It is sad to pass by a modern playground. Slides that are 6 foot high, swings that are eight feet high. Dull for any child over five years old.
Let’s look at what playground equipment used to be.

The all time favorite ...Merry go round

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You could get this sucker going a million miles an hour.
If you didn’t hold on, you went flying off


They were a blast... but somedays it seemed no kid on the playground had an entirely intact body.
 
Now we are talking REAL Swings

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Check the hang time
 
Today’s fun

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It is sad to pass by a modern playground. Slides that are 6 foot high, swings that are eight feet high. Dull for any child over five years old.
Let’s look at what playground equipment used to be.

The all time favorite ...Merry go round

View attachment 295466

You could get this sucker going a million miles an hour.
If you didn’t hold on, you went flying off


They were a blast... but somedays it seemed no kid on the playground had an entirely intact body.

A right of passage
 
How many times did I see stars after hitting my head on those wonderful steel poles?

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Can we get some real slides?

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As a four year old and you climbed to the top of that ladder, you thought you were going to die
 
I remember they had a playground at the drive in theater near my home...before and in between movies we kids all ran down under the screen and played our asses off ...I got trampled under by kids under this darn thing.....

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I didn't have playgrounds like those when I was growing up.

But we had amazing huge, green, gorgeous parks and beautiful little quaint old fashioned plazas ..... with some swings, yes....

Another world.
 
It is sad to pass by a modern playground. Slides that are 6 foot high, swings that are eight feet high. Dull for any child over five years old.
Let’s look at what playground equipment used to be.

The all time favorite ...Merry go round

View attachment 295466

You could get this sucker going a million miles an hour.
If you didn’t hold on, you went flying off


They were a blast... but somedays it seemed no kid on the playground had an entirely intact body.

A right of passage


I hardly knew a kid that used playground equipment in the manner they were intended.

Great afternoons dotted with stark terror here and there.
 
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Thanks for letting us know you're old and still stupid.
 
It is sad to pass by a modern playground. Slides that are 6 foot high, swings that are eight feet high. Dull for any child over five years old.
Let’s look at what playground equipment used to be.

The all time favorite ...Merry go round

View attachment 295466

You could get this sucker going a million miles an hour.
If you didn’t hold on, you went flying off


They were a blast... but somedays it seemed no kid on the playground had an entirely intact body.

A right of passage


I hardly knew a kid that used playground equipment in the manner they were intended.

Great afternoons dotted with stark terror here and there.
That was the point......death defying fun
Could you do more than the other kids?
 
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